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oh no, not masturbating to SEX

fans: *sympathize with villain*

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Writers: *didn’t write the villain as obviously sympathetic, but gave them a couple of experiences and powerful emotions that some people share and thus relate to, while making the hero too perfect and sweet to necessarily be relatable to those people*

People: *write AUs and the like to explore their own more sympathetic version of the villain and potential redemptions*

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Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.

ALL OF IT.

Keep them short and fast paced. This will keep them exciting, especially if you use short sentences to establish the fight’s fast pace. Plus, it’s unrealistic to have characters fighting each other for too long. Fights are exhausting, so they usually only last a few minutes (note that this does not apply to battles, only fights between a fairly small number of characters).

Experiment with unconventional weapons when possible and, even if you don’t want to do that, at least have different characters use different weapons. Not everyone is likely to fight with their bare hands or a sword. Consider letting your characters use weapons that aren’t used as often in fiction such as battle axes or improvised weapons that are only limited by your imagination and the resources your characters have available. Of course, you should make sure the weapons your characters use suit the time period and setting. Your characters shouldn’t have access to things that haven’t been invented yet, so make sure you do your research if you’re writing historical fiction.

Don’t focus on people’s thoughts or have them talk too much. That should help you keep things fast paced.

Show the effects of characters’ injuries. For example, a character who has hurt their leg might avoid putting weight on it. Little details like this emphasize that the injured character’s safety is at stake while also letting the reader know that injuries have lasting, important consequences in your story. Don’t shy away from having other characters take advantage of these injuries. This is a great opportunity to show which characters are willing to fight dirty.

On that note, give your characters different fighting styles. Not everyone fights the same way. Some people fight dirty while others don’t. Also, people’s fighting styles naturally differ because they have different strengths and weaknesses. For example, an agile character might quickly dart in to hit their opponent before swiftly retreating while a slower, more bulky character might want to stay close to their opponent for the duration of the fight and overwhelm them with their strength. Keep in mind that characters’ emotions can alter their fighting style. This is especially true when characters get really mad as that tends to make them more likely to fight aggressively and recklessly.

A Lake in Pomerania, Poland

Amsterdam

Athens

Bac Son Valley, Vietnam

Barcelona

Bern

Cape Town

Central Park, New York City

Chicago

Dubai

Dubrovnik

Giza Pyramids, Egypt

Mali, Maldives

Mangroves in New Caledonia

Marina Bay, Dubai

Maze at Longleat, England

Meskendir Valley, Turkey

Mexico City

Moscow

Namib Desert, Namibia

Niagara Falls, U.S.A.

Paris

Rio de Janeiro

Seattle

Shanghai

Terraced Rice Fields, China

Tulip Fields, The Netherlands

Vancouver

Vatican City

Venice

have most characters be non-minors, around the same age range. this is mostly to minimize underage nonsense.

while family relationships are important, save them as background elements, explored every now and then. focus mainly on the bonds of non-related characters and how their different backgrounds play off each other.

limit the overly edgy tone, where pain and suffering are near-romanticized. try to emphasize wholesomeness, health, and the various ways characters can have good relationships despite their differences. a lot of nintendo franchises are good examples.

avoid creating significant characters who are utterly irredeemable with harmful ethics. (for me personally, i limit elements such as abuse and discrimination for background conflicts while presenting more interesting, morally gray arguments, where either side is right/flawed) if you’re going to have a villain, either make them team rocket goofy or classic disney fun.

just. try not to have characters + relationships rely on racial tropes. if you overly rely on a tough dark-skinned / dainty light-skinned formula, you’re going to see some racist shipping. mix it up. round ‘em out.

same goes for gendered tropes. if a dude is downright violent and irresponsible and a level-headed girl has to put up with his flaws without him facing consequence, that’s a downright unbalanced relationship. and do keep in mind that if two boys utterly despise each other, people will absolutely take that a certain way. again, with #3, try to play off disdain as comedic or with exception rather than constant seething hatred.

– Don’t have children in your work,

– Don’t have families in your work.

– Don’t have any themes or ideas darker than Nintendo, because that’s romanticising suffering.

– Don’t have villains unless they’re in the relatively simplistic, child-friendly mould of Disney or Pokemon, and don’t try to deal with any difficult themes.

– Don’t have characters dislike each other.

That attitude is ableist and wrong.

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If you have a website that offers wordpress, you can back it up to there (and again set it to private)

https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/import-from-tumblr/

You can then set it up to import  new entries automatically using IFTT

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Stiles has breakdown after breakdown at home, varying between crying, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and the fear that his dad might arrest him when he finds out.

He spends his days holed up in his room, away from the pack, because he doesn’t want to know how they look at him now. He sees how they look at Peter, and he thinks he couldn’t stand being looked at like that.

On the third day Peter climbs through his window.

Stiles curls up small on his bed, in no condition to be mocked or made fun of because he can’t even stomach one measly murder.

But Peter sits down on the bed next to him, gently resting one hand on top of the sheets Stiles has buried himself under.

And then Peter starts to talk.

He talks about the first time he killed, acted as the left hand for Talia for the very first time. He confines in Stiles that he didn’t sleep for two days, couldn’t eat for even longer, weighed down by the knowledge of what he did.

He tells Stiles about the most inconsequential things that still remind him of the first time he killed, stupid, useless details he never got out of his head, even though he forgot so much during his coma.

And then he tells Stiles that it doesn’t necessarily get better, but that they learn to live with it. They learn to swallow around the lead in their stomachs and to close their eyes at night anyway.

When Stiles still stays silent, still remains unresponsive, Peter leans down and whispers his last secret to Stiles.

That when Stiles finally realizes that he did it to protect someone he loves, and when he accepts that he willl kill again for the people he loves, that’s the moment it stops being a burden and starts being a strenght.

Stiles starts sobbing uncontrollably for a while at that, Peter a steady presence at his side, but afterwards, he feels lighter.

in the most general aesthetic terms possible

1600s: most witch-hunts ended in this century. no witches were burned in North America; they were hanged or in one case pressed to death

1700s: the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette. the French Revolution. the crazy King George. most pirate movies

1800-1830: Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice! those dresses where the waist is right under one’s boobs and men have a crapton of facial hair inside high collars

1830-1900: Victorian. Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end

1900-1920: Edwardian. Titanic, World War I, the Samantha books from American Girl, Art Nouveau

1920s: Great Gatsby. Jazz Age. Flappers and all that. most people get this right but IT IS NOT VICTORIAN. STUFF FROM THIS ERA IS NOT VICTORIAN. DO NOT CALL IT VICTORIAN OR LIST IT ON EBAY AS VICTORIAN. THAT HAPPENS SURPRISINGLY OFTEN GIVEN HOW STAGGERING THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERAS IS. also not 100 years ago yet, glamour.com “100 years of X” videos. you’re lazy, glamour.com. you’re lazy and I demand my late Edwardian styles